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Miracles don't come cheap. You can't buy a miracle in the bargain-basement store of life. The check made out to "miracle" is never written. The fee is never enough. There is no credit card that can put a dollar sign next to the word. We try to define an undefinable something by our own perspective....

Naperville will soon be home to a new mall — the Mall of India. Mayor Steve Chirico Monday announced the development will move into the long-vacant Walmart building at 776 S. Route 59 by late summer. "Residents will have a grocery store, food court, learning center and retail stores all in one...

Glenbrook North High School physical education teacher and coach Mark Rebora died Sunday, school officials have announced. Rebora suffered a heart attack while on a bike ride Sunday afternoon, according to an email from Glenbrook North Principal John Finan to parents. During his time at Glenbrook...

Voters go to the polls Tuesday to decide Democratic and Republican nominees for the November general election, after a final day of campaigning saw candidates for governor, attorney general and Congress fan out across Illinois. Precinct polling places are open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., and a preliminary...

For two Deerfield Public Schools District 109 middle school students, the shooting deaths of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 14 were personal. Jordyn Resnick, an eighth grader at Shepard Middle School, and Aden Siegel, a seventh grader at Caruso Middle...

Salvador Martinez, the owner of a popular Elmwood Park car wash, said he has fielded a number of calls since March 14, when a customer drove through the car wash — and through its back wall — bringing down a part of its roof. Martinez, the owner of Sudz-Sational Hand Car Wash at 7811 W. Grand Ave.,...

Rock bands, comedy and a colorful professional wrestling legend are all part of an upcoming bash at the Hobart Art Theatre. "The 20th Annual Anti-Variety Show" with Jake "The Snake" Roberts is set for 1-9 p.m. March 25. Roberts' wrestling career is packed with stories that he will convey to those...

A lawsuit filed by a former village of Lincolnwood firefighter against the village and the private company that employed him will be allowed to continue, but the count filed against the village has been dropped, a federal district court judge wrote on Wednesday. Joshua Weller alleged in the lawsuit...

A lucky customer of a Naperville liquor store is $1 million richer. The luck of the Irish rubbed off on 9,253 St. Patrick's Day Millionaire Raffle ticket holders, including three who won top prizes of $1 million. The winning ticket was sold at Solo Liquors, 1474 E. Chicago Ave., Naperville. "That's...

A large bur oak stretches its branches across the Rollins Savanna landscape in Grayslake. Beneath the oak, a temporary pond is nearly thawed following winter's cold. It is there that tiger salamanders and blue-spotted salamanders — the two most common species in Lake County — will emerge from their...

Thousands more Lake County voters took advantage of early voting opportunities as this year's primary day approached, the Lake County Clerk said. Tuesday's primary includes a lengthy roster of competitive races locally, from the governor to the Lake County Board, with congressional and statehouse...

Two Brothers Brewing, which has been turning out craft beer for over two decades, has started distilling its own liquor which is now for sale in stores. Jason and Jim Ebel, founders of Two Brothers, are now offering vodka, citrus vodka, gin, coffee liqueur and amaro.

Evanston aldermen have given a first nod to a 40-year lease between the city and a nonprofit group that wants to restore the publicly-owned lakefront Harley Clarke Mansion property and turn it into an educational center for local kids, among other plans. "We want to convert Harley Clarke to the...

Scores and highlights may be emailed to southtownsports@gmail.com Note: Schedules are subject to change because of weather and other factors. TUESDAY'S EVENTS HIGH SCHOOLS BASEBALL Andrew at Plainfield North, 4:30 p.m. Beecher at Dwight, 4:30 p.m. Bloom at Evergreen Park, 4:30 p.m. Bremen at Romeoville,...

Scores and highlights may be emailed to newssunsports@gmail.com Note: Schedules are subject to change because of weather and other factors. TUESDAY'S EVENTS HIGH SCHOOLS BASEBALL Antioch at Woodstock, 4:30 p.m. Grayslake North at Vernon Hills, 4:30 p.m. Johnsburg at Lakes, 4:30 p.m. Libertyville...

Indiana senior Blake Pieroni didn't become a world-class athlete accidentally. But as the Olympic gold medalist and 2014 Chesterton graduate sees his college career coming to a close, he has taken his regimen to an even higher level. Improved diet, further reducing his consumption of sugar and...

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I called WKGN-AM midday host Cody McClure — the Knoxville, Tenn., sports-talker who tweeted a four-letter insult at Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt — hoping for the best but expecting the worst. I wanted to at least give a so-called professional a chance to defend an outburst I considered unprofessional,...

Former "Sex and the City" star Cynthia Nixon is running for New York governor. After flirting with a run for months, Nixon said on Twitter Monday that she will challenge Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York's Democratic primary in September. It sets up an intriguing race pitting an openly gay liberal...

As the biggest news organization in Chicago and the Midwest, the Chicago Tribune wants to inform our readers and encourage them to push an agenda for a more vital community. The most direct way they do that is in choosing who will lead their governments. Our readers make up their own minds when...

Ald. Brendan Reilly would doubtless hate the comparison, but one thing he has in common with President Donald Trump is a readiness to lob bombs on Twitter. While most of his City Council colleagues play it safe (and dull) on social media, the 42nd Ward alderman lets it all hang out, often going...

The weekend was not entirely sweet at Gentile Arena for Loyola University Chicago students. Hannibal Buress’ Saturday night show at Loyola, a Jesuit Catholic university, was almost cut short after the 35-year-old Chicago comedian made a joke referencing sexual abuse of children in the Catholic...

President Donald Trump signed a bill Monday that killed an Obama-era worker safety rule that required businesses competing for large federal contracts to disclose and correct serious safety and other labor law violations. Earlier this month, the Senate voted to eliminate the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces...

Attorney General Lisa Madigan startled a stateful of pols last year when she announced she wouldn’t run for re-election. “As I look ahead, I believe that the end of my fourth term as attorney general will be the right time for me to seek a new challenge,” she said in September. Her decision sent...

Voters go to the polls Tuesday to decide Democratic and Republican nominees for the November general election, after a final day of campaigning saw candidates for governor, attorney general and Congress fan out across Illinois. Precinct polling places are open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., and a preliminary...

President Donald Trump is preparing to impose a package of $60 billion in annual tariffs against Chinese products, following through on a longtime threat that he says will punish China for intellectual property theft and create more American jobs. The tariff package, which Trump plans to unveil...

Democratic primary voters on March 20 will choose from six candidates running for governor: a philanthropist, a state senator, an educator, a physician, a businessman and an anti-violence activist. Any candidate merits another title, “politician.” But some carry it better than others. Today we...

On a sunny day between opening-round games of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament in Dallas, Loyola’s 98-year-old team chaplain, Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, planned to go for a simple lunch down the street. “We couldn’t do it — everybody knows her,” said Tom Hitcho, the university’s longtime...

Michael Ferro stepped down from the board of Tronc on Monday, hours before Fortune published a story online accusing him of inappropriate sexual behavior toward two women while in his previous role as head of a Chicago investment firm. Ferro had been chairman of Tronc’s board since February 2016,...

I spent the first two decades of my career as a social scientist studying liars and their lies. I thought I had developed a sense of what to expect from them. Then along came President Donald Trump. His lies are both more frequent and more malicious than ordinary people's. In research beginning...

Naperville will soon be home to a new mall — the Mall of India. Mayor Steve Chirico Monday announced the development will move into the long-vacant Walmart building at 776 S. Route 59 by late summer. "Residents will have a grocery store, food court, learning center and retail stores all in one...

Mitch Trubisky is the sun in the Bears’ solar system. General manager Ryan Pace made that perfectly clear Jan. 1 when he openly challenged himself to surround the franchise quarterback with talent. Trubisky then watched Pace hire Matt Nagy, a former Arena League quarterback, to be the coach. And,...

The Tribune begins endorsements for contested primaries for Cook County Circuit Court judge. Choose wisely, voters, because it is maddeningly difficult to remove a bad judge once elected. Sitting judges must stand for retention every six years. It takes only a 60 percent “yes” vote to keep them...

Documents show some officials were so concerned about the mental stability of the student accused of last month's Florida high school rampage that they decided he should be forcibly committed. But the recommendation was never acted upon. Cruz is accused of the shooting rampage that killed 14 students...

Darnell Simmons, a longtime city worker, was walking out of a West Side store with his teenage son and another boy when gunfire erupted. Simmons pushed his son out of the way and then fell to the ground, according to an account from the teen relayed through Simmons’ cousin, Dedrick Wilborn. “He...

Nearly an hour after her American Airlines flight was scheduled to leave Honolulu International Airport, passenger Lisa Hill heard the pilot announce that a maintenance problem would delay the takeoff. The pilot gave fliers the option of getting off the plane but Hill, who was flying to Boston...

Roger Federer, the world’s top-ranked tennis player, ​​​​was in Chicago on Monday for the first time to help kick off the countdown to September’s Laver Cup. Organizers spent Monday morning setting up a small tennis court next to Millennium Park’s Cloud Gate sculpture. Federer, who had arrived...

Fred Hoiberg has a couch in his Advocate Center office on which he occasionally will try to snag a 20-minute nap. The pursuit is a nod to the stresses and demands that engulf NBA head coaches, a fact underscored Monday when Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue became the second coach this season to take...

When the Obama Presidential Center opens in about three years, visitors can get to it by car, Metra, bike or bus, but not by that most iconic form of Chicago transportation — the “L.” That’s because a Green Line branch that would have led right to the center was torn down in 1997, after some community...

Dylan Geick is not your typical college athlete, for any number of reasons. The Columbia freshman won a pair of state wrestling medals at Stevenson, finishing fourth in Class 3A at 152 pounds in 2016 and fourth at 160 in 2017. That part of his resume is not unusual. The rest of it is. Geick is a published...

Like Chicago’s downtown on St. Patrick’s Day weekend, a river of green has flowed through TV sets ahead of Tuesday’s primary vote, as governor candidates have spent tens of millions of dollars on advertising during the long campaign. The frenzied final weekend of in-person campaigning supplements...

A British television station broadcast video Monday apparently showing the head of the data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked for President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, talking about using bribes, traps involving sex workers and other unethical tactics to swing elections around the...